Line #26 WebAnimation/Negas


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3	-> ''"Mamadas, mamadas pendejas!"'' [[labelnote:note]]''Bullshit, fucking bullshit!''[[/labelnote]]
4	-->-- An annoyed '''[[DeadpanSnarker Negas]]''' using his usual ClusterFBomb.
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6	''Negas'' is a Mexican animated comedy Website/YouTube channel created by Ricardo Adrián Lozoya, a.k.a R.A.L.
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8	Twenty-something Negas moves to Mexico DF to work as a WhiteCollarWorker in a soulless and bureaucratic corporate machine. HilarityEnsues thanks to his eccentric coworkers and an inept boss with the power to teleport.
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10	It wasn't always, though. Originally when it began in 2006, the series focused mostly on Ral (an AuthorAvatar of R.A.L's childhood) and his nonsensical adventures with his friends Ranito and Keto. It also portrayed Ral's cynic older brother, Negas (an AuthorAvatar of R.A.L's adult self). However, R.A.L worked at a similar company at the time and his spot-on jabs at the culture made the office-themed series the most popular. After realizing this, R.A.L gradually reworked the series to focus almost entirely on Negas's workplace. In the process, the other employees at the maquila became more prominent characters while prior supporting characters such as Ral were DemotedToExtra.
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12	It is another of the most lucrative Website/YouTube cartoons of Mexico, together with WebAnimation/PoGonYuTo and ''WebAnimation/VeteALaVersh''. The miniseries can be found on the [[https://www.youtube.com/user/IrreverenToons IrreverenToons Youtube channel]].
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14	* ''Raltoon (2006-2011)'' [[labelnote:note]]''A SliceOfLife about Negas's younger brother and his classmates at the streets of Chihuahua.''[[/labelnote]]
15	* ''Don Makila (2010-ongoing)'' [[labelnote:note]]''Negas's misfortunes at the maquila he works for.''[[/labelnote]]
16	* ''DF me le cuento (2012-2013)'' [[labelnote:note]]''Negas dealing with the traffic at Mexico's streets or subway.''[[/labelnote]]
17	* ''Ena Gena (2010-2012)''[[labelnote:note]]''A {{hikikomori}} boy living in Chihuahua. All episodes consist of him playing videogames and being indifferent to everything else around him, which brings nothing but trouble.''[[/labelnote]]
18	* ''Poppa Peg (2015-2017)'' [[labelnote:note]]''A parody of {{WesternAnimation/Peppa Pig}}, which consists of her being flanderized into a whiny, obnoxious, man-hater BrattyHalfPint.''[[/labelnote]]
19	* ''Moni and her Homosexual Hair (2016)'' [[labelnote:note]]''A ValleyGirl and her sentient (and homosexual) hair.''[[/labelnote]]
20	* ''Pinchimono (2013-2016)'' [[labelnote:note]]''The misfortunes of an AxCrazy sentient blob with a HairTriggerTemper.''[[/labelnote]]
21	* ''Niño Ratta (2016-2019)'' [[labelnote:note]]''An obnoxious gamer kid making meta references. A CharacterExaggeration of the gamer boys seen around the Internet.''[[/labelnote]]
22	* ''Cherc (2020-ongoing)'' [[labelnote:note]]''A parody with a CampStraight version of Shrek.''[[/labelnote]]
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25	!!''Negas'' provides examples of:
26	* AdaptationalDumbass:
27	** Ernie from ''Series/SesameStreet'' in Veto y Enryke.
28	** George Pig and Mummy Pig from ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' in "Poppa Peg" are just a bunch of idiotic and brainless buffoons who only ever say a few words and have little of relevance to state.
29	* AdaptationalJerkass:
30	** Rabbit from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' in "Wini el Putz".
31	** WesternAnimation/PeppaPig and Daddy Pig in "Poppa Peg", Peppa is rude, selfish and inconsiderate while Daddy Pig is grumpy and hateful of his entire family to the point that he's killed them multiple times over slighting him.
32	* AdaptationalVillainy: The Sun from ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' in "Teleshoobies", whereas in the original series it is a typical nice inhabitant of the world of the Teletubbies, in the Negas video it appears in is a corporate shill who brainwashes Negas to help promote consumerism.
33	* AloofBigBrother: Negas shows up at times in ''Raltoon'', but is mostly off with his own life. His default attitude regarding his little brother Ral tends to be disdain or at least cool reserve.
34	* AmbiguouslyGay: Paulo, the jerkass BadBoss.
35	* AndADietCoke: Moni thinks in a diet is perfectly okay to eat a salad topped with a ''bucket of fried chicken''. When her PrehensileHair calls her out on it, she claims it's okay, because she's drinking diet coke.
36	* AuthorAppeal: The various bland products and videogames references.
37	* AuthorAvatar: [[RuleOfThree The author has three in the series.]] They even share his BigOlEyebrows.
38	** Negas, the cynic adult who's disillusioned about his life.
39	** Ral, the innocent child who's unaware about the CrapsackWorld he lives in.
40	** Pinchimono, the violent and emotional blob who prefers to screw the rules and dive right into a situation.
41	* ArtEvolution: The web animation's art style is rather sketchy in the original chapters but becomes much more professional as the series progresses.
42	** Later on, the ''Don Makila'' sketches take a more sketchy and chaotic style. R.A.L explains this is for two reasons: 1) He feels this way they convey better the frustration of being a drone stuck in a dead-end job and 2) [[ItAmusedMe he thinks the deformed characters look funny]].
43	* BadBoss: Paulo Chinguetas. He treats his underlings badly, especially Ñoñostacio and Negas. He also favors the Wapper, because he is good-looking. In later episodes, he's subdued to {{Flanderization}}.
44	* BigOlEyebrows: Negas has some peculiar ones. Also, his brother Ral.
45	* BlackComedy
46	* BoisterousWeakling: Niño Ratta, who declares himself to be the best gamer and hacker ever. Far from the truth, he's actually a 13-year-old geek who sucks at everything he does.
47	* BrattyHalfPint:
48	** Niño Ratta and [[WesternAnimation/PeppaPig Poppa]].
49	** Also Keto, Ral's rebellious friend who's always talking about anarchy.
50	** Alvin during a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''. He starts baudmouthing Simon, Theodore and even Negas, who was taking care of them. Eventually, Alvin becomes so bratty and annoying that Negas shoots him to death with MoreDakka. Combined with an AtomicFBomb and Negas threatening to kill Theodore, because he is a RidiculouslyCuteCritter and because he likes Music/JustinBieber.
51	* ButtMonkey: Ñoñostacio, even more than Negas.
52	* CatchPhrase:
53	** Negas: '''Mamadas, mamadas pendejas! (Bullshit, freaking bullshit!)'''
54	** Checker: '''Ay, que rico! (Aww, so yummy!)'''
55	** Paulo: '''[[VerbalTic Aurururururu!]]'''
56	** Ral: '''Amigo! (Buddy!)'''
57	** Don Cuco: '''Que chingados andas haciendo, puta?! (The hell are you doing now, bitch?!)'''
58	** Niño Ratta: '''Te boi a jakear! (I'm gonna hack ya!)'''
59	** Ganso Donal: '''Amo a jugah, papu!(Let's play, buddy!)''' and '''Me estoy quemando! (I'm burning!)'''
60	* CampGay: Checker Cuckis, who is after anyone, as long as it is a guy. He also lusts after Negas.
61	** Moni's homosexual hair is a lighter example, though it's notable in that R.A.L voices him with the exact same voice as Checker.
62	* CampStraight: Cherc and Donkey.
63	* ClusterFBomb: A good portion of the narrative.
64	* ComedicSociopathy
65	* ComicBookTime: Lampshaded a few times.
66	** In ''Raltoon'''s ChristmasSpecial, Keto and Ranito complain that by the end of the year they'll still be in elementary school.
67	** In one episode by Ratta's teacher "Today is the last day of classes, but since we live in an atemporal world, it's going to be the same year forever and ever".
68	* CouchGag: The Poppa Peg episodes have many:
69	** Poppa will introduce herself "I'm Poppa the pig!" followed by a random, usually unrelated character, also presenting themselves (usually Poppa will yell "PUTO, CAÓN!" (Faggot, bitch!) at them.
70	** The title appears with the subtitle "Created by: ___" each episode having a different creator (Satan, Hitler, Trump, The Dollar at Thirty Pesos, Capitalism, Justin Bieber, ETC.)
71	** At the end of the episode, the title is shown again, though this time we see [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Poppa's after she was killed]], and a new "Created by: ____" gag.
72	** The video ends with an advertisement for "Leshe Shabo" (Dude Milk), followed by a new variant of said milk (Light, gluten-free, baby, chocolate, etc).
73	* CrankyNeighbor: The Stubborn Old Man, who often whacks Negas (and Checker) with his walking cane for little reason at all.
74	* CrapsackWorld: It is actually a flanderized Mexico City, but still, you can and probably will die at any given point by criminals rampaging about; crime runs rampant, the police is wholy corrupt and on top of that even the protagonists aren't without their own screwed-upness.
75	* DepravedHomosexual: Checker, Checker, Checker...
76	** Niño Ratta's teacher as well. Unlike Checker, the problem is not that he tries to flirt with everybody, but that the main target of his affections is Ratta's classmate, Albertito.
77	* DeadpanSnarker: Negas’s prominent trait.
78	* DistractedByTheSexy: In the "Negas VS. Wapper" episode, Paulo makes them work hard in order to get a bonus as he records them in order to make a video "How to be and not to be at the Maquila". After complimenting the Wappers’s atributes and style and complaining about Negas’s plain and ordinary face and clothes, he declares that the winner is Wapper because he is hot. Negas is not amused.
79	* TheDilbertPrinciple: ''Don Makila'' is full of this.
80	** Not only Paulo is horrifyingly inept as a boss, but the manager is a sexual harasser that gets away with his actions due to his high position.
81	** Incompetent workers are often promoted quickly, whereas those who know what they're doing suffer from limited advancement opportunities, such as Negas.
82	** Despite Ñoñostacio's intelligence, he is held back because he's too useful as Paulo's servant and errand boy.
83	* DraggedIntoDrag:
84	** Negas is dressed in a frilly pink fairy dress during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lPse3Wp-cY the Morfo advertisement for Schick]].
85	** Checker cosplaying as Michonne during the parody of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' (wearing a disturbing UncannyValleyMakeup no less!)
86	* TheEeyore: Negas. He actually has a MeaningfulName, since it's a pun on the word "negative".
87	* TheFundamentalist: Ratta's classmate, Moises Amenes, a highly religious boy who claims everything is a sin, except for sunday school, The Bible and The Bible 2.
88	* JerkassToOne: Cherc might be a flamboyant CampStraight, but is especially mean to Random Soldier, who just wants to be friends with him and Donkey. It gets so bad that Donkey and even R.A.L himself call him out on this.
89	--> '''Cherc''': ''I dunno, I don't feel safe in this scrappy car, Donkey.''
90	--> '''Donkey''': ''Let's just get going, Cherc. It'll be fine.''
91	--> '''Random Soldier''': ''Well...it's gonna be hard to pay my car, Cherc. You see, yeah....the economic situation it's bad these days.''
92	--> '''Cherc''': ''Bullshit! Here people are poor just 'cause they want to!''
93	--> '''R.A.L''': ''briefly breaks character to laugh offscreen Hehehe. Fucking Cherc, you asshole.''
94	* FreeRangeChildren: In ''Raltoon'', Ral and the other kids seem to run around town without much adult supervision.
95	* IncompatibleOrientation: Checker towards any male in the series.
96	* LetsMeetTheMeat: A couple of Poppa Peg episodes end with Daddy Pig slicing her into ham slices and serving them as dinner.
97	* NietzscheWannabe: Negas in earlier chapters. Would someone so snarker usually be that philosophical?
98	* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Nobody ever seems to age, despite the fact that their adventures could easily take months or even years. Justified, since it's a GagSeries.
99	** What makes this especially odd, is that Negas, actually does grow up, going from being in his late twenties to early thirties.
100	* NotSoAboveItAll: Negas mocks Ñoñostacio for being a weaboo, [[HypocriticalHumor only to start fanboying for the]] ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' [[HypocriticalHumor when he thinks nobody is watching him]].
101	--> '''Negas''': ''I can't believe he forced me to watch that shit! Fucking manchild!''
102	--> '''TV''': ''Coming up next....Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles!''
103	--> '''Negas''': ''HELL YEAH! proceeds to hum the opening song out loud''
104	* OccidentalOtaku: Ñoñostacio and Niño Ottaco.
105	* PokemonSpeak: Poppa's mother, Mothafucka, can only say one word: "MOTHAFUCKA!". With a stereotypical black man voice, even.
106	* PuppyDogEyes: Negas has ones during the ThrowTheDogABone episode, when he realizes that [[PetTheDog the girl he spent the night with, put him some Alka-Seltzer in his pocket]].
107	* ReallyGetsAround: Checker.
108	* RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: As shown in the episodes "El Chavo" and "Santa exists", Negas becomes a physicist, gets married and wins a Nobel Prize. He even becomes more of a snarker than he already is. His grandson lampshades it.
109	--> ''"I'm Negas' grandson, [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Negas Mc Fly!]] Don't ask how the grumpy asshole was able to reproduce, but he did, okay?. Get it over with."''
110	* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful:
111	** The Wapper in his debut episode.
112	** Niño Ratta's teacher openly swoons and praises Albertito, while dismissing his other students for being "ugly".
113	* SdrawkcabSpeech: TheGrays in Niño Ratta speak like this. They even listen to music this way (when the audio is reversed, it's revealed that the weird, otherwordly music they dance to is actually a cumbia).
114	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In the future episode, Doc from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' appears to Negas’s grandson, in order to create a time paradox to prevent Music/JustinBieber’s birth.
115	* StylisticSuck: The ''Niño Ratta'' animations. Among other things, the characters are barely animated, they briefly blink out of existance, background objects ocasionally move to higher layers and a good chunk of clothes, objects and backgrounds are blatant cases of GISSyndrome (the pattern on Ratta's mom's dress even has a ''stock image watermark'' on it).
116	* SurroundedByIdiots: Negas firmly believes this, even during his NotSoAboveItAll moments. He's not entirely wrong considering he lives in a CrapsackWorld.
117	* TakeThat:
118	** The ''[=DFme=] le Cuento'' videos take a lot of jabs at the general state of Distrito Federal (Federal District), Mexico's capital, as well as the political climate of the early 10's.
119	** The ''Burger Kin'' miniseries is a long one directed at the Burger King restaurants chain (which have a widespread presence in Mexico).
120	** The ''VideoGame/Battlefield4'' promo makes blatant jabs at the Mexican Army (and other armies in general), the Narcos[[note]]the name given to the organized crime network in Mexico[[/note]], capitalism in general; as well as some less overt jabs at the Vietnam War due to parodying ''Film/ForrestGump'' and even a quick one against ''Battlefield 4'' itself regarding the new army dog feature.
121	--> '''Negas''': "Dan comida gratis y te pagan por matar o morirte, como el narco ¿Verdad? Pero obvio pagan chingos menos, aunque de eso a estar de nini hipster tiramierda o hacer monos para drogadictos, pos eso."[[labelnote:Translation]]"They give you free food and pay you to kill or die, just like the narco, right? But of course they pay you a fuckton less, but between that or being a shit-spewing hipster NEET or making stuff for drug-addicts, well that."[[/labelnote]]
122	* TheDogBitesBack: When [[BadBoss Paulo]] teaches Negas his technique of popping out of nowhere. After he proceeds to explain how did he learn it, Negas uses it and escapes. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the end, when as Negas drives away, Paulo pops out in the car; freaking out poor Negas and crashing his car. Apparently, Paulo did it to give a lesson on how to be more attentive to surroundings, but Negas starts insulting him, since his car is now destroyed.
123	** Averted. In later episodes, Negas uses it to escape from his co-workers when they start being too annoying.
124	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: In general characters die repeatedly through the videos but never once does it ever stick.
125	** Negas himself has been killed a few times, such as getting gunned down by a drug-addicted version of Choco Krispis' mascot, Melvin in "Chaka Krispis". He also dies in "Rais Mamex Maxx" where the titular insecticide sets him on fire from its potency and then blows up Earth for good measure (unless that was just an advertising exaggeration).
126	** The titular character of Poppa Peg is killed in every single episode, only to return on the next one.
127	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Most of Don Cuco's dialogue, when talking with Niño Ratta.
128	* ThrowTheDogABone: The advertisement episode for Alka-Seltzer. Negas goes to the disco where he finds a girl, who takes a liking to him, even with the DeadpanSnarker traits. Another much better looking man asks the girl to dance, but she prefers to dance with Negas, much to the latter’s joy. After they dance all night and have sex, he goes for his job reunion the next day, obviously tired, only to find that the girl left him an Alka-Seltzer in his pocket. Cue Negas smiling, a success at the reunion and the possibility to see the girl again. Considering how much crap he goes through and how badly he often is treated in the series, he really deserves it.
129	** Ocasionally, Don Cuco will show he appreciates his stepson, Niño Ratta, in his own twisted way. Usually when Ratta is upset about his biological father rejecting him.
130	* UnexplainedRecovery: If a character is killed onscreen or offscreen, they are very likely to return on the next episode without any explanation or even acknowledgement of their deaths. Heck in one Niño Ratta episode, Niña Unik killed herself ''twice''.
131	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Negas is an unpleasant cynic who is judgmental and bitter towards everyone, especially those he sees as morons.
132	** Niño Ratta is selfish, arrogant, dumb, and all-around obnoxious. His antics are so extreme that the constant abuse by Don Cuco actually come off as being warranted half the time.
133	** Poppa is self-centered, full of herself, and just plain mean-spirited and hypocritical all around. So when whatever she's doing blow up in her face and leave her thoroughly humiliated, it's all too easy to laugh at her misfortune.
134	* UsedToBeASweetKid: As shown in the "Children's Day" episode, this is the case with Negas, Checker and Ñoñostacio who each had a certain event drive them into their current selves.
135	** Negas was a cute little boy who thought the best of people and loved to play with his Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles dolls. And then, his Raphael [[DisproportionateRetribution doll breaks]] and we see him now as a hysterical young man who HatesEveryoneEqually....
136	** Checker used to be an average innocent child, until Music/MichaelJackson lured him to a van with promises of candy. Fortunately, Franchise/RoboCop killed him before he could molest Checker. Meanwhile, the boy found a collection of {{Literature/Twilight}} films and saw them all in a day...turning him into the CampGay he is now.
137	** Also Ñoñostacio was an outgoing-child who was an overachiever and loved playing sports. Until one day a vendor tried to sell them some Anime/YuGiOh cards and convinced him that he would be succesful at life if he collected them all. Afterwards, he becomes a slobbish OccidentalOtaku.
138	* SourOutsideSadInside: According to WordOfGod this seems to be the case with Negas, Don Cuco and Papa Cerdito.
139	* VerbalTic: “Hurururururu”, used by Paulo when popping out of nowhere.
140	** Ral makes a "Ploop" noise whenever he blinks.
141	* WhenHeSmiles: Negas, especially during the ThrowTheDogABone episode mentioned above. He even points it out to the girl he dates in that episode.
142	-->'''Negas''': Hi, wanna dance with me? See, I can smile. grins
143	* WorldOfSnark: Are you really surprised?

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